This fixture last season produced a 4-0 Boxing Day victory for the Reds. Dejan Lovren scored early in the first half with Mo Salah (penalty), Xherdan Shaqiri and a first goal for the club from Fabinho completing the scoring after the break.

The teams met again on Tyneside in the penultimate league game of the season with Liverpool winning 3-2. They were twice pegged back by Christian Atsu and Solomon Rondon after Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah had scored. With 4 minutes of normal time remaining substitute Divock Origi headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick.

Liverpool are unbeaten in the last 23 league games at Anfield against United, winning 19 and drawing 4 with 11 of those victories coming in the last 13.

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Liverpool have won 27 and lost 11 of the 48 Premier League meetings and have found the net in 21 of the last 24 home and away league encounters.

There has not been a goalless draw in any of the last 66 Liverpool v Newcastle clashes - a run dating back to February 1974 and a meeting on Tyneside.

At Anfield there has been only game in the last 56 league and cup meetings which has failed to produce a goal. That came in February 1970 and there has not been a goalless draw in the 40 fixtures in front of the Kop since, including 37 in the league.

The Reds have scored 98 goals against United in the Premier League (more than any other team) and 151 have been scored between the clubs. Only Arsenal (159) and Tottenham (155) games have produced more.

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Only once in the last 13 home league encounters with the Geordies have Liverpool failed to score more than once and only twice in the last 19.

Liverpool have scored in 23 consecutive home matches against the Geordies - a Premier League record run, while they scored in 36 of the last 37 in the top-flight at Anfield.

Liverpool’s biggest Anfield league win over Newcastle came in August 1967 - the Reds winning 6-0. Their heaviest defeat by Newcastle on this ground was by a 5-1 margin in December 1907.

Liverpool have won more home games against Newcastle (19) than against any other team in the Premier League era.

Dejan Lovren scores Liverpool's opener in the 4-0 home Premier League win over Newcastle United in December 2018 (Image: James Baylis - AMA/Getty Images)

Mo Salah played his first game in English football as a Chelsea substitute in the 3-0 defeat of Newcastle at Stamford Bridge in February 2014. He scored in each of his last 3 appearances against the Magpies. The last man to so for a fourth league game in succession was Michael Owen (1998).

Phil Neal is the last Liverpool player to miss a penalty against Newcastle - doing so in 1977 - while the only Magpie to fail to score against the Reds from the spot in the league was Colin Veitch in November 1906.

The last Liverpool player to be sent off against Newcastle was Pepe Reina in a 2-0 defeat on Tyneside in April 2012.

Liverpool are unbeaten at home in the last 42 league games (32 wins, 10 draws). The Reds are averaging exactly 3 goals per game from their last 22 league games at Anfield.

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Mo Salah has scored 46 times in his last 54 Anfield appearances in league and cup with 36 coming in his last 40.

Liverpool have now won 13 consecutive league matches to set another club record, beating the 12 from April - October 1990. In this current sequence the Reds have scored 37 times and conceding 10 while they are only the second English top-flight side to achieve the feat while scoring more than once each time (after Tottenham in 1960).

They are unbeaten in 21 league games, equalling their best run under Jurgen Klopp.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could make his 50th Liverpool appearance in all competitions.

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The Reds have scored 12 goals in their opening 4 league matches this season, their highest tally at this stage of any Premier League campaign and their best since they netted 16 in the first 4 games of 1978-79.

United have won twice in the last 46 league visits to Anfield – in back to back visits of 1988-89 and 1993-94.

The Magpies’ one Premier League victory at Anfield came in April 1994 courtesy of a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Rob Lee and Andy Cole. That is their only clean sheet in the last 37 league clashes in front of the Kop.

United have taken 4 points at Anfield in the league out of a last possible 69 on offer. They have scored 5 goals in the last 12 league meetings with the Reds on Merseyside.